AHMAD JAMAL . Trio " Darn That Dream " . 1959

This clip has RESTORED AUDIO and I hope you enjoy it.
Many thanks to ScottysShowBar for his help in supplying the video!

[@gregmaier8714]

Broadcast from CBS Studio 61, housed at the Monroe Theatre at 1456 First Avenue, at East 76th Street, this 1959 episode of Jazz from Sixty-One featured a live performance of "Darn That Dream" by Ahmad Jamal and his trio. Pianist Ahmad Jamal (1930-2023) was accompanied by Crosby (1919-1962) on bass, and Vernel Fournier (1928-2000) on drums. Also visible in the video are other luminaries who performed that evening, including tenor saxophonist Ben Webster, pianist Hank Jones, bassist George Duvivier, drummer Jo Jones, trumpeter Buck Clayton and trombonist Vic Dickenson. The show's consultant, Nat Hentoff, can be is seen nodding to the music with a pipe in his mouth and his wife next to him.

[@TheStewie117]

Damn. Hate to say it :( rip sir. This is probably my favourite jazz clip/song on youtube. He’s swinging so hard and surrounded by legends. I am an utmost fanatic of bebop, but there’s no other pianist like him. His music helped me tremendously in the pandemic as well. Rest easy sir.

[@elbosco8715]

Plandemia.

[@andradas9688]

This recording should be sent to the cosmos next time mankind decides to send a magnificent hello to any alien out there. It displays genius. Jamal's tone, harmony, groove, dynamics, etc is like an entire orchestra. The music evolves so organically, like a symphony covering a wide array of motives, sections, textures, etc, etc. Mr. Ahmad Jamal, it is sad you left this planet, but your contribution to our planet is eternal.

[@lawrencebrazier1894]

CAN'T TELL YOU HOW MANY TIMES I GOT BACK HERE. If anyone actually needs a "reason" for liking jazz, this is it.

[@bluepikmin6976]

Love this comment… here I am again as well!

[@lawrencebrazier1894]

@@bluepikmin6976 - How nice. Thanks for connecting. What do you say to a rendering such as this? I seem to recollect that Ahmad Jamal was the reason given by Keith Jarrett for starting to play jazz piano. But, of course, this clip is beyond reason. So light - it makes your inner world elated - like Art Tatum who always leaves me feeling, well, merry. All the best - Lawrence (in Austria)

[@bluepikmin6976]

@@lawrencebrazier1894 hello from the US! I'm not a musician and don't know much about the inner workings of jazz but I keep coming back to this video because the song is, to your mention, light but it has lots of memorable sections. Here's what I mean - the initial section from 00:31 to 00:38 is a short little run that I just really like hearing. When I first watched this video, a similar run is repeated at 1:12 to 1:18. It happens again 1:54 - 1:58 but a bit different, then returns 3:24 - 3:30 and 4:20. I'm not sure what the musical terminology is for something that is repeated (albeit a bit different each time). To give you another example, I really like Pannonica from Chick Corea's Now He Sings, Now He Sobs. I'll link it here kzbin.info/www/bejne/moPUlKKYjsh3pcU Listen to these three sections: 00:27 - 00:35 00:58 - 1:07 1:23 - 1:30 1:40 - 1:50 Overall though, if I could simplify, there's many small short sections in jazz songs that I keep coming back to, but rather than jumping to a point in a video, I do like listening to the entire thing. Cheers to music!

[@lawrencebrazier1894]

@@bluepikmin6976 Good day to you JS - thanks for the timings you sent. I find it a good idea to hear some vocal versions of something I like. Darn That Dream has been sung by just about everyone. A recent Chic Corea purchase is with the sensational Hiromi. The double CD is called "Duet". All the best - L

[@atombomb31458]

Im here 2-3 times /mo I love everything about this video.

[@AndalusianIrish]

Almost in tears as I have just discovered that he passed yesterday 16th April 2023.

[@andradas9688]

2023

[@AndalusianIrish]

Thanks. Fixed. ​@@andradas9688

[@TheGlass50]

This man swings like mad. He’s still alive people. 91 years young.

[@nemo227]

Thanks. I was just going to look him up on the internet to see if he was still with us. I first "discovered" him on a vinyl 33.3 rpm record 50 years ago and played it and played it and played it. Still have it. He's one of the best things to happen to music. Just discovered we were each born within 20 miles of each other but he was first.

[@dabzcast]

I'm so grateful he is mannn

[@she_sings_delightful_things]

That's fabulous news!

[@TheGlass50]

@@nemo227 Wow.. That’s awesome. Thanks for sharing this with us.👊🏿

[@nemo227]

@@TheGlass50 People need music. Everyone. Years ago I arrived at work and my deaf printing press operator had his earbuds stuck in his ears, listening to music. I started laughing and said, "You can't hear!" He could read my lips and he was laughing too. I guess he was able to feel some of the vibrations. We worked well together. I think that was about 30 years ago.

[@urbanradionation]

Rest in Peace sir. The great Ahmad Jamal.

[@agustindomenech3001]

3:04 Ben Webster enjoying the incredible swing of the trio. Its amaizing the way Ahmad come up with beautiful melodies, and also the riffs are nice. Great recording!

[@SzokePeter66]

Who are the other cats standing aroung the trio? The man smoking the pipe may be one of the famous jazz impressarios whose name I'm not sure about now. Norman Granz? Because this is like a Jazz at the Phiharmonic stuff. Although Granz didn't have a beard, did he? Thank you anyway!

[@NolaVenice]

Ahmad Jamal: Lovely, sensitive and drug free music performed with complete, understated authority even with the giants of jazz peering over your shoulder!

[@NolaVenice]

And Ben Webster looks like he's totally smacked out.

[@yellowstone169601845]

1959. What a year in jazz.

[@theinfamouspokeinrichmondc3543]

So I was just telling my son about Thelonis Monk and McCoy Tyner. Then I wake up and my cousin sends me this. My goodness this is incredible!!!!!

[@jeanhodgson8623]

Watch it here kzbin.info/www/bejne/bXypfn-EpNVjlck to get the sound and picture in synch.

[@RC_Cola2020]

Thelonious *

[@greghemlock6679]

You are 18% cooler for listening to this❤

[@jimcaro5063]

Saw Ahmad on Mother’s Day in 1958 or 59. His mom was in the audience and he and she were given a standing ovation. Carnegie Music Hall Pittsburgh PA. He was skinny and great.

[@markberry9233]

RIP Ahmad - thanks for all the music and teachings you left us… 😢

[@Azman.]

Another the great living jazz maestro has left us on jazz planet at his age. His muzik legacy will remain. May his soul rest peacefully on this Ramadan Kareem. Aamiin.

[@EclypseDubz]

I always come back to this one, but to find out Ahmad passed away through the comments... Rest in Peace, literally the greatest of all time.

[@harpereion8702]

Pioneering Jazz legend. One of the Great Artists from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Ahmad Jamal July 2, 1930 - April 16, 2023, R.I.P.

[@cherylrobinson1885]

Yes it looks like a lot of jazz legends were from pittburgh

[@davidtalkington7975]

PURE, ABSOLUTE, UNADAULTERATED, MUSIC. TRUTH FROM THE SPIRIRT OF THE HEART.

[@laughia7311]

R.I.P. Ahmad. Genius is too small a term for you and what you created for us.

[@tdirtyatl]

RIP to a Jazz Legend. 🎹

[@gimmemyish]

The culture needs to get back to this.

[@montelluke8498]

All the cats taking it in buck Clayton,Hank Jones,George duviveau,and the "FROG" himself BiG BEN WEBSTER, so many great players the gentleman with the pipe is nat hentoff the jazz critic

[@tommyblack7998]

Wonddrful performance. A great example of "less is more". Amongst the spectators: Hank Jones, Buck Clayton, George Duvivier, a very stoned-looking Ben Webster, Jo Jones and Nat Hentoff with his pipe and beard.

[@peteryeoman8813]

Sadly he has just died at 92 years young rip the legend that was Ahmed.this track epitomises all that was great about the man.Boy could he swing!

[@muhammadshakoor8745]

Ahmad Jamal RIP 🎹 passed away today 😢 May the Creator have mercy on his soul Ameen

[@zenbooter]

This is a very sad day for me. My wife is still in bed(early Sat morn) May 20 it’s raining outside just melancholy morning. Well he was wonderful, and I loved him from the start. That pearl of an LP “At The Pershing Lounge” he put out in 59’ that did it for me. Muhammad that was a beautiful thing you said, and I feel the same. Holy God , Holy immortal one, have mercy on the soul of Ahmad and on us all.

[@Rebooted-Pych0]

So happy I’ve seen this. His playing is so smooth and cool similar to Miles and the trumpet. He should be ranked in the top 10 of all time. I watch this everyday for the last two weeks, the man in the audience at the end of the song sums up his playing with that look of confidence and amazement. Can’t get enough of his playing 5+ stars…..Thank you AJ

[@stephentysonsr.1094]

If you’re referring to the balding man with mustache, that’s drummer Papa Jo Jones; the man with the dark hat is tenor saxophonist Ben Webster; the man closest to him is pianist Hank Jones; and the man with the beard and pipe is Jazz critic/writer Bat Hentoff.

[@stephentysonsr.1094]

Nat Hentoff

[@zenbooter]

Actually Miles did in fact say it, how he really dug Ahmad’s style.

[@WayOutWardell]

Rest in peace to a master.

[@amaeva4331]

Absolutely beautiful.. Its like he just sits there and receives the inspiration and it comes out his fingertips ❤

[@aaronTNGDS9]

What a genius---He and Bill Evans are outstanding and have a way of eliciting that special vibe within me whenever I hear them play. I love how he sometimes concentrates on the keys at the right side of the keyboard.

[@nursingheartwood1549]

one of the greatest to ever do it! I was blessed to see MR Ahmad Jamal in several different countries and he alway put on an amazing show! He was my favorite musician, I will miss him dearly. RIP...

[@tromboneJTS]

the piano articulation is so crisp and the timing is perfect, the melody is in-the-pocket. SO SWEET! SO SWINGING!

[@zazaahmad2513]

I like the sounds He produced so much I took His name Ahmad as My own... Much Love...

[@innergeek]

Thank you, Ahmad. Rest Well.

[@mmedved5567]

RIP Ahmad Jamal. Eternal cool cat.

[@danstein130]

What a legacy Jamal is going to leave us with. If nothing else, and there is SO MUCH MORE, there is the value of space and silence -- something so lost on so many who try so hard to bully us with amazing technique over construction and dynamics.

[@arturcoutinho3034]

Jamal is an example of Greatnes Thanks God

[@dristicks8209]

REST IN POWER MAESTROW AHMAD JAMAL!!!BLESS AND LOVE ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

[@abs117a]

This is SOOOOOOO incredibly performed and remastered!! WELL-DONE job!! This was the year I graduated from high school in Ky. I was a dancer and LOVED his music that lit my dancing shoes! He sounds as good now as then!!

[@zenbooter]

You were among a few I’m sure. I live in Ashland , from metropolitan NY NJ area. Would have loved to see you then. BTW, I’m 81 young.

[@paulmahoux]

Incredible trio ! Such elegance, creativity, precision ! Farewell to higher spheres, Master. Thank you very much for uploading this restored video.

[@juanfedrums]

RIP Ahmad Jamal

[@NaomiNay-ei4jv]

Beautiful rendition ❤ RIP. Thankyou for upload

[@georgeliveris8517]

Happy 92nd. Thank God you were born.

[@geekmega7527]

Rest in peace, Ahmad. 4-16-23

[@alejandropabloarturi2560]

A masterclass about dynamics and atmosphere control in jazz. Loving it from Argentine.

[@atombomb31458]

so true

[@gilleschiasson4485]

Had my head rockin'

[@mannygetpaid8853]

Why Am I am just hearing about this Great Musician.

[@willweaver5024]

Rest In Peace 16 April 2023

[@frednormanguitarist6603]

This early Ahmad Jamal Trio was one of my all-time-favorites. I loved his "LIVE at the Pershing" recordings in Chicago on the Cadet or Chess label (?). Although I'm a guitarist, Ahmad's trio and arrangements were very inspiring to me - still are!

[@brucescott4261]

@frednormanguitarist6603 ...BUT NOT FOR ME: AHMAD JAMAL AT THE PERSHING was originally released in mono (Argo LP-628) on June 4th, 1958. It was later released in stereo (Argo LPS-628) on December 30th, 1960. You probably were born when this classic LP was reissued on the Cadet label in 1965. The late, great Ahmad Jamal had a tremendous influence on Miles Dewey Davis III. The former also had such a tremendous impact on McCoy Tyner, Herbie Hancock, et al. The list is endless.

[@frednormanguitarist6603]

@@brucescott4261 Thanks for the info, Bruce. I'm an "older" guy - born in 1956!

[@brucescott4261]

@frednormanguitarist6603 ...I was born in 1953. We're both from the Baby Boomers generation. Welcome aboard! [SMILE!]

[@johnburke568]

Ben Webster’s digging it

[@timothyd4y]

RIP and thanks for the music!

[@route4112]

rest easy sir, thanks for the tunes!

[@franckavitabile]

Great Ahmad !!! I love this tune, incredible harmony

[@tonyqunta32]

Musical perfection! Absolutely amazing!

[@maureenmccarthy1059]

Impeccable!

[@chuckjillson1756]

RIP AHMAD

[@pierochiti9441]

Genius!!!!

[@melanievelenciaherring2447]

So much class! You are in my soul sir.

[@cherylrobinson1885]

He has some of the jazz greats standing around him

[@bruno.ddb0]

one of the greatest band in a jazz history

[@_federico]

he looks ands sounds so cool and fresh.

[@michaelchapman4955]

'This vintage video reminds me of Hefner's KTLA weekly Jazz series Playboy After Dark with Great Jazz in Living Black & White

[@mrgee918]

That was pure silk. Rest in praise sir.

[@MonicaTrapaga]

Thankyou for finding this clip,such a great recording and it's so good to be able to see the session, Heaven!

[@glennbasile314]

And what an amazing touch…RIP

[@jce34me]

This guy reclassified smooth.

[@timskelton4383]

RIP Ahmad.

[@user-bu5zl8iv2s]

アーマッドジャマルトリオのモノクロの動画。非常に珍しい画像です。アップ有難うございます。

[@AntonioC.M]

This is music!

[@Zoco101]

The photographer does not seem to be a musician, but it's nice to see the faces anyway, even in this random fashion. Great jazz of course.

[@JONNYHOTROD]

MAGNIFICENT!!!!!….That ben webster with the trilby on?……looks like him ❤️👍🏻

[@scottweatherill246]

Best jazz ever . Nothing compares

[@w1lmes]

RIP

[@adriennravizee]

RIP One Of The Greats

[@khabasahure9840]

RIP GOOD BROTHER YOU WERE AN INSPIRATION in more than one way

[@Joe1935429]

Beautiful restoration of the audio! Thanks! '59 I was just out of college and teaching high school in LA, Coupla life times ago. lol

[@DetroitBrendan]

I feel blessed to have seen you at the Detroit Jazz Fest a few years back. Left quite the impression on my ears, and then to see you were doing it in your early 20’s, just amazing!

[@pitmanbrowne5798]

Wow he really does swing it baby Ya Maaaaan

[@alankottommannilthomsontho1035]

RIP Jamal

[@marcusbrown1767]

Pure greatness.

[@coolliam422]

elegant

[@cherokeenuma]

ありがとうございました！大好きでした！

[@rustica55]

Magnifico video Gracias!!!💝

[@nyronut]

RIP XO

[@rodneygolden2796]

Looks like Nat Hentoff (cat with the pipe) and his main squeeze for the date digging the scene. A host of other luminaries are present as well. The great and grand Hank Jones, starting from Ahmad's left on the piano and Ben Webster about mid way around, 'Papa Joe' Jones, etc. Can you find and identify more? Let us know.

[@thikdikriky1559]

Anybody else catch joe jones cheefing a square? This is incredible

[@christophercharles9645]

And I think Ben Webster's checking things out. Probably a few we're missing.

[@TheGlass50]

Yes, those two and Lena Horn. Who else? Every face you see is a jazz musician of note I believe.

[@lininho]

Do I see Hank Jones there, too?

[@sweetegg]

Clean performance. I'm surprised by the overall pruduction quality!

[@indelaxiom]

Rest in Peace Ahmad Jamal

[@shragab]

RIP. Great loss.

[@henriquemota7341]

Wow, what a sound, thank you soooooooooooo very much!

[@rogerball6265]

So good to hear even these some many years later

[@eranimongelos5749]

BravoooO !!!!!!

[@muhammadshakoor8745]

Smooth 🎶

[@brenoojuara1]

RIP.

[@normanbonk8064]

❤❤❤

[@rayanashaw536]

Is it just me or does he look like he’s from this era as a young guy ?

[@EspeonVI]

You’re not the only one thinking that! 💯

[@lyndellwilliams2600]

Actually a lot of things we think are new are really not. Hairstyles, clothing, music & so on. Remember the Afro came back in the 90's.

[@nurvraxartproductions6145]

Yep quite a contemporary look

[@franckdebank]

Agent Jamal sent by the matrix

[@Amadis37]

What? This is beautiful but it ain't darn that dream I

[@philipstalter4448]

Did I see Coleman? RIP Ahmad.

[@soulsightseeing23]

Epic

[@lyndellwilliams2600]

Epic is a word & something that is missing from the entertainment industry as of now & probably since the early 2000's

[@peggygallant]

F**king awesome

[@HieronymousLex]

Is this really ahmads channel? I’ve been listening to this recording since I was 12 or so, I’m 23 now and I still listen to it often

[@reythmband]

Music that will never sound "old."

[@aslazaimi5824]

No I don't think it's his official yt page

[@justme-yr2xf]

No Dopplegangers Stole It